The Impossible Year

Tag: cta

  • Cuyler and the Brown Line

    Cuyler and the Brown Line

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Found out that Begyle Brewing was selling their 2020 Barrel Aged Imperial Pajamas beers in cans this year and swung over to do a curbside pickup. After parking, I turned around and took this shot. One of my favorite things about Chicago is seeing the elevated train tracks running…

  • Belmont Flyover Crane, 9 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Biking back from Chicago Comics I stopped to appreciate the clear blue sky we were having and how this crane for the CTA construction looked.

  • Montrose Brown Line, 6 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I walk to the Brown line almost every morning to get my coffee and breakfast from Spoken, and yet I can’t remember the last time I rode the CTA. It’s truly surreal. I miss it like I miss a friend. Something I’d never…

  • Pizza Break, 4 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I biked up to Jimmy’s Pizza Cafe in Lincoln Square and then sat on a CTA bus stop bench to eat so I could be far away from other people. Strange times we’re living in.

  • Clark and Roscoe, 8 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Wrigleyville’s landscape continues to change as, despite everything else going on, the construction never stops. The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization project, aka ‘RPM’ marches on, leveling buildings and building brutalist structure, as we march towards a faster, more efficient mass transit system. One…

  • The Gerber Building, 30 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 At the corner of Wilson and Broadway is arguably one of the most beautiful CTA building in the city. In recent years it has been remodeled and improved to it’s former glory and will one day wind up as the home of Chicago Market…

  • North to Ravenswood, 9 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent Tuesday biking around listening to ‘Road to the Skeleton Coast’ with Brendan Kelly, as he explains the orgins of The Lawrence Arms and how deeply tied it is to Chicago’s punk movement, and influenced by inequity. Something about this empty lot alongside a…

  • Montrose Brown Line, 27 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) It’s strange to see the CTA virtually empty… err what you can see of it. Just take my word.

  • Randolph and Wasbash Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible Color Film 11*13 ActiveCampaign closed the office Friday as we’ll all be working from home during the holidays. I managed to catch this shot while waiting for my train. It’s rare that I can get a proper night shot to then out (hard to judge how much light…

  • Morning on Wabash Polaroid SLR 680SE  / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection Sometimes I walk up Wabash from my girlfriend’s place to work.